How developing your team can drive progression
Career progression is one of the key ways to retain your top talent. Most have come to expect this as part of their employment and during the course of their employment with you will want to develop new skills, so employers need to find ways to create these opportunities or risk losing their best talent in some cases.
Development programs can attract, develop and retain talent, as well as boosting employee morale and building cohesion within your teams.
Implementing internal programmes
Implementing career programmes can aid employee performance therefore they are more likely to deliver focussed and high-quality work compared to those who don’t have these opportunities. As a business we should be responsive to a variety of development opportunities to show support towards employees.
Specifically, SME’s who have the flexibility and opportunity to tailor and share training and development to suit their teams and capitalise on the rise of online and AI training.
Online training and skills lists can be created for multiple roles within your company, that can then be followed and practiced by employees allowing them to advance their career. These training programmes can encourage individuality and originality for your team.
The benefits for your business
Quantifying the advantages of including a range of training opportunities for employees is simple however, can be difficult to quantify for employers.
Training courses for more experienced workers can develop or revisit skills that can revive their career progression. For less experienced candidates seeking a way to improve their expertise, completing a training course and including it on a CV looks great.
Employers who invest in training and development see noticeable improvements in performance, job satisfaction and retention in their teams, added to which new skills can be shared with other team members.
Employers can also use online training as a useful anchor or benchmark for monitoring staff development, and providing a clear method of setting achievable goals, measuring progress and structuring career expectations.
Training and Mentoring
Increasing retention is essential to securing the long-term future of any business. By offering mentoring to new starters, to help them develop both hard and soft skills, you are protecting your business against future talent gaps and increasing retention.
Top Tips
As a manager there are a few things you can do to enhance your mentoring skills:
Leading teams involves a degree of mentoring.
Find out how you can get the necessary soft skills to develop your teams’ mentoring abilities.
Don’t be afraid to reach out to people who inspire you and ask for their advice.
They had to start somewhere too, and chances are, they had a mentor at the beginning of their career.
Get to know your teams, their strengths and skillsets.
It will help you make informed decisions about who can mentor your new recruits in the early stages of their career withing your hospitality business.
Be open and receptive.
Everyone you work with can teach you something, regardless of what stage they are at in your career.
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